Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction: Austerity, Measured 1
4. Austerity: An Economy of Words? 17
5. Performing Austerity: Greece’s Debt Crisis and European Integration 32
6. Austerity, Socialism, and the Capitalist Anti-Market 48
7. Debt, Vultures, and Austerity in Argentina 60
8. Austerity Wars: The Crisis of Financialization and the Struggle for Democracy 74
9. On Austerity and Structural Adjustment: Continuity and Difference across Space and Time 91
10. Austerity in Portugal: The ‘Middle-Classification’ of the Public Space, Migration, and the Silences of History 103
11. (De)stabilizing the European Austerity Debate: Lessons from Post-crisis South Korea 115
12. Austerity and ‘the Discipline of Historical Context’ 130